The Politburo has just issued Resolution 71 on breakthroughs in education and training development, with a series of key goals to build high-quality human resources.
To strongly innovate institutions, create specific and outstanding mechanisms and policies for the development of education and training, the Politburo directed the development of special and outstanding incentives for the teaching staff; increase vocational preferential allowances for preschool and general education institutions to a minimum of 70% for teachers, a minimum of 30% for employees, 100% for teachers in particularly difficult areas, border areas, islands, and ethnic minority areas.
Notably, one of the important contents stated in Resolution 71 as well as clearly stated in the Law on Teachers is the policy on regimes and allowances for the teaching staff.
Issues regarding allowances and salaries for teachers are also clearly regulated in the Law on Teachers (effective from January 1, 2026).
Accordingly, teachers' salaries are ranked highest in the administrative career salary scale system. In addition, teachers are also entitled to preferential allowances and other allowances depending on the nature of their work and the region as prescribed by law;
In particular, preschool teachers; teachers working in ethnic minority areas, mountainous areas, border areas, islands and areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions; teachers teaching at specialized schools; teachers implementing integrated education; teachers in some specific sectors and occupations are entitled to higher salary and allowances than teachers working in normal conditions.
Mr. Vu Minh Duc - Director of the Department of Teachers and Education Management, Ministry of Education and Training said that to ensure the effectiveness of the Law on Teachers from January 1, 2026, the Ministry of Education and Training must advise and submit to the Government to issue 3 Decrees and issue 12 Circulars under its authority.
3 Decrees include: Decree detailing a number of articles of the Law on Teachers; Decree regulating salary policies, allowance regimes, support and attraction policies for teachers; Decree regulating preferential allowances according to the profession for civil servants in the education sector.
12 Circulars regulating professional standards, working regimes, recruitment authority, equivalent titles, and codes of conduct for teachers.
In the draft Decree regulating salary policies, allowances, support and attraction regimes for teachers in the draft Law on Teachers, the Ministry of Education and Training plans to advise the Government to rearrange the salary tables of some titles of teachers (such as preschool, general education, university reserve, Grade IV vocational education teachers, etc.) to ensure consistency in the salary table applicable to the professional titles of teachers and civil servants in other fields and fields; at the same time, ensuring the living standards of teachers, helping teachers feel secure in their work and dedication to the education cause.
In addition, the Draft Decree also stipulates a special salary coefficient for teachers at 1.1 to 1.6 depending on the level of education and training level to ensure that teachers' salaries are higher than civil servants and the salary table applied to other sectors and fields; reduce the salary gap between young teachers and long-time teachers in the same job position.
